Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
KHALIL GIBRANWhen you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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